IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property
information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today
released the Home
Equity Report for the third quarter of 2018. The report shows that
U.S. homeowners with mortgages (which account for roughly 63 percent of
all properties) have seen their equity increase by 9.4 percent year over
year, representing a gain of nearly $775.2 billion since the third
quarter of 2017.

Additionally, the average homeowner gained $12,400 in home equity
between the third quarter of 2017 and the third quarter of 2018. While
home equity grew in almost every state in the nation, western states
experienced the most significant increases. California homeowners gained
an average of approximately $36,500 in home equity, and Nevada
homeowners experienced an average increase of approximately $32,600 in
home equity (Figure 1).

From the
second quarter of 2018 to the third quarter of 2018, the total
number of mortgaged homes in negative equity decreased 4 percent to 2.2
million homes or 4.1 percent of all mortgaged properties. Year over
year, the number of mortgaged properties in negative equity fell 16
percent from 2.6 million homes – or 5 percent of all mortgaged
properties – in the third quarter of 2018.

“On average, homeowners saw their home equity increase again this
quarter but not nearly as much as in previous quarters,” said Dr. Frank
Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic. “During the third quarter,
homeowners gained an average of $12,400 compared to the second quarter
when the average home equity wealth increase was more than $16,000. This
lower year-over-year gain reflects the slowing in appreciation we’ve
seen in the CoreLogic Home Price Index.”

Negative equity, often referred to as being underwater or upside down,
applies to borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes
are worth. Negative equity can occur because of a decline in a home’s
value, an increase in mortgage debt or both. Negative equity peaked at
26 percent of mortgaged residential properties in the fourth quarter of
2009, based on the CoreLogic equity data analysis which began in the
third quarter of 2009.

The national aggregate value of negative equity was approximately $281.6
billion at the end of the third quarter of 2018. This is down quarter
over quarter by approximately $1.1 billion, from $280.5 billion in the
second quarter of 2018 and down year over year by approximately $2.7
billion, from $279 billion in the third quarter of 2017.

“The number of homes in a negative equity position have remained around
2.2 million for two consecutive quarters this year,” said Frank Martell,
president and CEO of CoreLogic. “Without equity, those homeowners are
unable to sell their homes and are more likely to transition from
delinquency to foreclosure if they face financial distress.”

The amount of equity for each property is determined by comparing the
estimated current value of the property against the mortgage debt
outstanding (MDO). If the MDO is greater than the estimated value, then
the property is determined to be in a negative equity position. If the
estimated value is greater than the MDO, then the property is determined
to be in a positive equity position. The data is first generated at the
property level and aggregated to higher levels of geography. CoreLogic
data includes more than 50 million properties with a mortgage, which
accounts for more than 95 percent of all mortgages in the U.S. CoreLogic
uses public record data as the source of the MDO, which includes both
first-mortgage liens and second liens, and is adjusted for amortization
and home equity utilization in order to capture the true level of MDO
for each property. The calculations are not based on sampling, but
rather on the full data set to avoid potential adverse selection due to
sampling. The current value of the property is estimated using a suite
of proprietary CoreLogic valuation techniques, including valuation
models and the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI). In August 2016, the
CoreLogic HPI was enhanced to include nearly one million additional
repeat sales records from proprietary data sources that provide greater
coverage in home price changes nationwide. The increased coverage is
particularly useful in 14 non-disclosure states. Additionally, a new
modeling methodology has been added to the HPI to weight outlier pairs,
ensuring increased consistency and reducing month-over-month revisions.
The use of the enhanced CoreLogic HPI was implemented with the Q2 2016
Equity report. Only data for mortgaged residential properties that have
a current estimated value are included. There are several states or
jurisdictions where the public record, current value or mortgage data
coverage is thin and have been excluded from the analysis. These
instances account for fewer than 5 percent of the total U.S. population.
The percentage of homeowners with a mortgage is from the 2016 American
Community Survey. Fourth quarter of 2017 data was revised. Revisions
with public records data are standard, and to ensure accuracy, CoreLogic
incorporates the newly released public data to provide updated results.

Source: CoreLogic

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